BVSE and AGPU: Positive development in recycling solutions for the building material PVC
On the occasion of the 21st Waste Plastics Day in Bad Neuenahr, the German Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste Disposal (Bundesverband Sekundärrohstoffe und Entsorgung e.V. - bvse) and the Working Group PVC and the Environment (Arbeitsgemeinschaft PVC und Umwelt e.V. - AGPU) drew a positive interim balance for the recycling of PVC as a building material. PVC has numerous long-lasting applications in the building sector. Here, proven products such as windows, pipes, floor coverings, roofing and sealing membranes or cable sheathing are particularly [...]
Esslingen-based waste disposal company Scherrieble collects old plastic windows for recycling
Anyone in the Esslingen area who wants to be sure that their old PVC windows, roller shutters or doors are recycled in an ecologically sound way has come to the right address at the disposal company Scherrieble. Last year, the company was able to collect a total of 1,316 tonnes and send them for material recycling. The company does not only focus on the disposal of large construction sites, as Anette [...]
Urban mining: 600 old PVC windows removed and recycled
In Würzburg, ten flat blocks with 144 flats and a floor area of around 15,000 square metres are currently being demolished. The buildings were erected between 1950 and 1956 and no longer met today's requirements for environmental protection and living ambience. A municipal housing company therefore decided to demolish and rebuild residential properties according to modern standards. As part of the measures [...]
PVC Recycling Campaign at the 24th Demolition Conference
The 24th Demolition Conference will take place in Berlin from 2 to 3 March 2018. This year, Aktion PVC-Recycling will again be represented with a joint stand. In addition to the AGPU, other partners are participating in the initiative, including Rewindo, the AgPR and Roofcollect. This year, the German Demolition Association as organiser expects [...]
Window replacement at Troisdorf Industrial Park - Old windows provide new raw material
Building 56 in the Troisdorf Industrial Park, also known as the "House of Technology", was the control centre of HT Troplast AG for many years. Today, the building houses the administration of profine GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of plastic window profiles. To make the building fit for the future, the more than 200 old windows are currently being replaced [...]
"Best Practice" enters the final stage in spring
After running for almost 1.5 years, the campaign "Best Practice for the Environment" will enter the home stretch next spring. Its primary purpose is to identify exemplary building projects, especially in the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, in which discarded PVC building products such as windows or floor coverings are recycled and reused. The initiators - PVC Working Group and [...]
PVC recycling: record-breaking project in Franconia
At the end of October 2017, the starting signal was given for what is in some respects a record-breaking construction project. In Schweinfurt, a former settlement of the US armed forces, now owned by the city, is currently being demolished and replaced by a new development. By 2019, work on the 28-hectare site with 34 three-storey residential rows and 13 semi-detached houses is expected to [...]
"Best Practice" in Chemnitz - exemplary handling of old building materials
The renovation work at the residential centre of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), Ortsverband Chemnitz und Umgebung e.V., in Rembrandtstraße in Chemnitz must be carried out with particular care. Because 32 people with severe physical disabilities currently live in the 23 flats of house 2 of the facility, whose daily routine is to be disturbed as little as possible by the construction work. No easy task, because the [...]